Importance Of Shadowing Experiences

Dressed in a simple sari and covered in blood, an unfamiliar woman rushed into my house desperately searching for my grandfather, the only physician in a forty mile radius. The next few moments brought chaos and generated quite the interest in our usually quiet village of Aklacha in Gujarat, India. Immediately, my grandmother quickly sent my cousin and I into our room and told us to stay there until they handled a “situation” at the neighbor’s house. As any adrenaline-pumped, curious-minded child would do, I began questioning my cousin and when I got no answers, I decided to sneak out the front door. By the time I reached my neighbor’s house, there was a sizable crowd outside. The older kids kept saying, “There was a snake wrapped around the baby’s neck!” I was terrified, yet mystified and desperate to find out what had occurred. By the time I wove through the crowd, both the baby and the mother were gone, and all that remained was a pool of blood. The sight of the puddle of blood became etched into my mind, and my seven-year-old mind only processed “snake”, “blood” and “baby.” It was not until later that night that my grandfather explained that the “snake” was actually called an …show more content…
Through my participation with Circle K Club and Alpha Epsilon Delta Premedical Honor Society, I was also able to coordinate fundraisers for the Ronald McDonald House, The Kortney Rose Kiss Cancer Goodbye Foundation, and St. Judge Children’s Hospital to help pay for medical care for those who could not afford it. Each of these projects further proved that health is an intangible form of wealth that if handled with proper care could lead to individual empowerment and fulfillment. Through these experiences, I learned that I wanted to spend my life helping people maintain and obtain the wealth associated with good